Essay on The Pardoner of Chaucers Canterbury Tales :: Pardoners Tale

The Canterbury Tales - The Pardoner The Canterbury Tales is a poetic story of a group of large number, who were going to pilgrimage. They were going to the tomb of St. Thomas a Bechet in Canterbury, which is about sixty miles from London in England. In that group, there were clergy and laity people. And in the poem Chaucer described all of them so well that we put up easily see the picture of how they lived and how they be extradited in manners of work and otherwise ways of life. And while he was describing, he too criticized some members of the clergy do, because of their abusing of their position and doing things that they were not supposed to do, or not doing something they were supposed to do in their position. Among those people whom Chaucer criticized very much were the mendicant and the Pardoner. In the medieval society, where people were very religious, illiterate and superstitious, the Friar was respected as God himself. The Friars job in the church was to help peopl e, who committed crime, by giving them a guide to pray for a certain beat so that they can receive absolution. But the Friar in the Canterbury Tales was not honest and dedicated in doing his job. He abused his position by taking money from people who came to confess. He told them that they would get absolution if they return him and thus bust the vow of obedience because it is against the Catholic Church. He broke the vow of chastity by having adulterous relationships with other women. By article of clothing expensive clothes, spending his time with wealthy people rather than fate beggars or sick lepers, he broke the vow of poverty. The Pardoner is a person who says prayer for dead people so that the sins they had committed in life would be forgiven. The Pardoner of The Canterbury Tales abused his position by sell some papers which he claimed if people bought, their time in purgatory would be shortened after death he sold them for very advanced price. He also claimed that h e had Virgin Marys veil, which would have been 1330 years after Mary died. He also claimed that he had St. calamuss sail and said the pig bones, he always carried with him, were relics of St. Peter. Chucer also criticized him by implying him as a homosexual by referring him to a geld or a mare.